Psychopharmacology
This is the world’s most commonly used psychoactive compound
What is Caffeine?
This is an order authorizing the compulsory treatment in the community of a person may be made by the Tribunal
What is a Community Treatment Order (CTO)?
This is the primary system for identifying mental health conditions in Australia
What is the DSM-5?
A deeply personal, unique process of changing one’s attitudes, values, goals, skills and/or roles. It is a way of living a satisfying, hopeful and contributing life even within the limitations caused by the illness. This involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one’s life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness.
What is Personal Recovery?
This was the first antipsychotic medication to be developed
What is Largactyl (Chlorpromazine)?
This is the most commonly used antipsychotic in the ESMHS
What is Olanzapine?
This is the year the current NSW Mental Health Act was created.
What is 2007?
This category of disorders relates to experiencing persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness and individuals may lose interest in activities they once enjoyed.
What are Depressive Disorders?
This training is mandatory for all MHRU and community staff
What is the Two day Strengths and Recovery coure?
This person was Australia’s first mental health nurse
Who is Martha Entwistle?
This medication class acts on the same receptors as alcohol?
What are Barbiturates or Benzodiazepines? (GABA Receptors)
This guiding principle of the MHA (2007) is that all care should be provided in this setting
What is the least restrictive environment possible?
Absences or reductions of thought processes, emotions and behaviors that were present prior to the onset of the illness but have since diminished or are absent following the onset of the the illness.
What are Negative Symptoms?
There is a 90% lifetime exposure to this in psychiatric patients
What is Trauma?
The building housing the Prince of Wales Acute and Sub-acute units is named after this person
Who is Professor Leslie Gordon Kiloh (1917-1997)?
This class of antidepressants work by blocking the reabsorption of the neurotransmitter's serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain
What are Selective Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs)?
This section of the MHA (2007) enables detention of a person after apprehension by policy
What is Section 22?
This endocrine disorder can cause mania
What is Thyrotoxicosis or Cushing’s syndrome?
This person famously quoted “The important question in psychiatry isn’t whats wrong with you but what happened to you?”
Who is Eleanor Longden?
This therapy was a precursor to ECT. It was utilized due to the belief at the time that conditions such as epilepsy and mental illness could not exist together.
What is Metrazol Therapy?
Mood stabilizers may reverse impairments in this area
What is Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), or brain structure?
This is a premises subject to an order in force under section 109 of the MHA (2007)
What is a Declared Mental Health Facility?
A person with this disorder neither enjoys nor desires close relationships, prefers solitary activities, has little interest in sexual activity, is indifferent to either praise or criticism, and shows emotional frigidity
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?
These people designed the strengths assessment and strengths and recovery principles
Who are Rapp and Goscha?
This outdated psychiatric diagnosis originally designated a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood.
What is Dementia Praecox?